Workers' Liberty 36, November 1996

Chaos in Russia

Download PDF Bob Arnot reports on the background to the nationwide protest strike in Russia on the 5th November

Blair's act of uniformity

Ken Coates MEP questions Tony Blair's christian socialist credentials and his plans for the labour movement. Download PDF

Survey

Download PDF Articles: Scotrail workers take on union bosses Glenroy Watson, rank and file challenge The GMB's friends in the north Chinese dissident jailed London Hospital crisis Postal workers: don't throw the vote away! German trade unionists say 'we are not alone' Class struggle in Germany Racist backlash in Australia US labor builds

Trotsky and Marxism part 2: the Fourth International

Trotsky was a warrior of internationalism. He did not conclude his analyses with the tired yawn of a dilettante who has just turned out a literary essay and has nothing further to do. The organisation of groups of intelligent, devoted, and zealous men of action to carry out a programme of struggle was not the least of his preoccupations. In this field Trotsky has been criticised, not only by enemies but also by friends, more than he had perhaps been in any other. But rarely has such criticism been objective, or made with a sense of proportion. What Trotsky did and tried to do in the building...

Who should pay for higher education?

Who should pay for higher education? “Everyone” By Erin Lyon* I think we agree on a number of principles: 1. Higher education is in need of reform; 2. Students shouldn’t have to pay tuition or top-up fees. However we must look at the realities of higher education and society before we deal with the question of reform. Higher education participation rates have increased from 1 in 8 in 1979 to 1 in 3 today. Funding, however, has not been increased to match the increase in students. In fact, we have seen a 25% reduction in spending on students in higher education since 1990. Looking at the...

Marx and Engels on education

Marx and Engels’ best known piece of writing, the Manifesto of the Communist Party, refers to education explicitly three times. First, in describing the rise of the bourgeoisie, Marx and Engels say: The bourgeoisie finds itself involved in a constant battle. At first with the aristocracy, later on, with those portions of the bourgeoisie itself, whose interests have become antagonistic to the progress of industry; at all times, with the bourgeoisie of foreign countries. In all these battles it sees itself compelled to appeal to the proletariat, to ask for its help, and thus, to drag it into the...

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